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quiverful
/ ˈɪəʊ /
noun
- the amount that a quiver can hold
- literary.a fair number or full complement
a quiverful of children
Example Sentences
Another article claims they are believed to be adherents to a fundamental faith called "Quiverful" which directs that sex is only for procreation and families must seek to have as many children as God will give them.
She comes and goes, she folds her cloak around her and vanishes, having shot into her victim’s heart a quiverful of teasing arrows.”
Even the condition of Trollope’s curates, like poor Mr. Quiverful, is exactly reproduced by those long-term adjuncts who teach semester to semester and live contract to contract.
But it is an agricultural giant, home to 30m pigs and a quiverful of global brands.
I was armed with my long Indian blow-pipe and a quiverful of darts.
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